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  • In making this suggestion, the old Greek paused ever so briefly before the word capital.   (source)
    capital = material wealth
  • My education in social capital continues.   (source)
    capital = wealth
  • But for you it will be a trebling of your capital.   (source)
    capital = material wealth
  • But social capital is all around us.   (source)
    capital = wealth
  • Social capital isn't manifest only in someone connecting you to a friend or passing a résumé on to an old boss.   (source)
  • Not the best kind of business; but an active man (and a tough man) could increase his capital many times over in a year.   (source)
    capital = material wealth
  • She also earned additional income from a capital investment in her friend's company.
    capital = cash (or more generally, material wealth -- especially assets available for use in the production of further assets)
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  • The kid was dressed in a rumpled gray jumpsuit with the word INMATE stenciled in capital letters across the back.   (source)
    capital = uppercase
  • It was the capital letter A. By an accurate measurement, each limb proved to be precisely three inches and a quarter in length.   (source)
    capital = an uppercase letter
  • They with a capital T There's Them and then there's Us.†   (source)
  • In a capital case, such as this, the law requires your presence.†   (source)
  • Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max.†   (source)
  • Never had there been such a battle in the heart of our capital.†   (source)
  • They moved to New York right after college, had me a few years later, then moved to a brick townhouse in North River Heights, the hippie-stroller capital of upper upper Manhattan, when I was about a year old.†   (source)
  • You read a lot of capital-G great books, don't you?†   (source)
  • You should see it, it's got curly tails on the y's and the g's, and fancy loops on the capital letters.†   (source)
  • The sun hadn't quite set when we drove into Jalalabad, capital of the state of Nangarhar, a city once renowned for its fruit and warm climate.†   (source)
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  • Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to … to show the Capital they don't own me.†   (source)
  • Just not with a capital G. What's your IQ?" he asks Lev.†   (source)
  • Etched along the slat, in capital letters, was the name LOUIS ZAMPERINI.†   (source)
  • Capital Z-e-r-o. Zero wrote the letters as Stanley said them.†   (source)
  • When Chris was six, Walt was offered a position at NASA, prompting a move to the nation's capital.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Winterbottom was playing the role of Father, with a capital F. He sat at the head of the table with his white shirt cuffs rolled back neatly.†   (source)
  • They didn't have the capital.†   (source)
  • "Puppy" is written at the top in capital block letters.†   (source)
  • Even the prospect of the dinner buffet was no longer enough to keep us in the nation's capital.†   (source)
  • At the Capital Planetarium.†   (source)
  • Wikipedia: Taiyun (Chinese: pinyin: Taiiyucin) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China.†   (source)
  • I sense he has great plans for her here in the capital.†   (source)
  • Five months later, in April 1932, Paul was able to record positive figures once again for Holsten Jewelers, and he used the capital to modernize the newly renamed Altona Market Jewelers.†   (source)
  • She seemed very ordinary, wearing black pants and a button-down white shirt with a logo on the breast—WICKED spelled in blue capital letters.†   (source)
  • Others pointed to the different levels of cultural capital and social resources our mothers possessed: my parents were college graduates, as were my grandparents, and my mother was able to tap into a wide network of supportive friends, family, and professional contacts when she needed help.†   (source)
  • Each pillar bore an OASIS teleportation icon, a capital "T" in the center of a blue hexagon.†   (source)
  • They rode in a truck from the Ifo refugee camp to a processing center in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.†   (source)
  • Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.†   (source)
  • "What's the capital of Hungary?" she demanded.†   (source)
  • THE MIRACULOUS MOVING CAPITAL†   (source)
  • IT WAS FRIDAY, SO THE Illea Capital Report would be on at eight.†   (source)
  • George was arrested and charged with capital murder.†   (source)
  • Then he walked Bod around the graveyard, placing the boy's small fingers on the newest and clearest of the headstones and the plaques, and taught Bod how to find the letters of the alphabet when they appeared, beginning with the sharp steeple of the capital A. Silas gave Bod a quest—to find each of the twenty-six letters in the graveyard—and Bod finished it, proudly, with the discovery of Ezekiel Ulmsley's stone, built into the side of the wall in the old chapel.†   (source)
  • And there was no way I was going to drive around the capital city.†   (source)
  • "Okay, okay, so nobody's going to be caught on the way to the capital.†   (source)
  • Here at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened," Mr. Curtain boomed, writing the name out on a chalkboard and circling all the capital letters, "we show our students how to L.I.V.E.!"†   (source)
  • There weren't enough of them to form recognizable letters or shapes—except for a capital "I"—so they didn't march much at halftimes of games.†   (source)
  • I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057.†   (source)
  • Savannah had become the murder capital of the United States!†   (source)
  • With my big feet and pencil body, I looked like a capital L walking down the road.†   (source)
  • What's the capital of New York?†   (source)
  • God-capital G, God.†   (source)
  • Right next to Belhaven be the downtown and the state capital.†   (source)
  • San Jose was the capital, just twenty minutes away by air.†   (source)
  • In May 1940, the Nazis began to implement a policy to "cleanse" Krakow, the capital of the German-controlled territory called the Generalgouvernement, of its Jewish population.†   (source)
  • Got to have capital improvements in a business.†   (source)
  • Why else would you leave the capital and venture this far?†   (source)
  • I was confusedly looking for a bus to the capital when I bumped into a passerby.†   (source)
  • When the Elector Primo's name comes on, we salute toward the capital.†   (source)
  • "FIRST YOU TELL ME I CAN'T WRITE USING ONLY CAPITAL LETTERS, NOW YOU WANT ME TO 'ELABORATE'—TO BE MORE 'EXPANSIVE.'†   (source)
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